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The revenue stamp indicated that a tax had been paid on the materials.

Cigarette packages that lacked a New York State revenue stamp—cigarettes purchased out of state, for example, or on Indian reservations—were not allowed to be distributed to inmates, and were apparently thrown away.

Cost, in cents, of a revenue stamp affixed to papers regarding the $305 sale of a boy in Bourbon County, Ky., in 1863.

Covers and sheets of paper bearing the revenue stamp already impressed were to be sold at all post offices.

Judicial fees bring in a small amount, and the issue and sale of postage and revenue stamps have proved a fruitful source of income.